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This is the fourth Murnau i've seen, after Nosferatu, Sunrise and Faust. I admire the work of Murnau for it's beautiful compositions an camera movement. Murnau is able to translate the mood he want's to set into composition and movement without being artsy for the sake of it.

Tartuffe has quiet a story behind it. Apparently, Murnau was forced by contract to make this film. So this film is to Murnau what Spartacus was to Kubrick. Even though it's still a Murnau picture: again Murnau knows how to give a quiet flat story more depth by suggestion and style. I liked the film, it's hasn't got the outdoors scene's that Sunrise and Nosferatu had, or the huge sets and special effect of Faust, but still it remains an exciting film. Don't hold back by the negative reviewers of the film, this is, by all means, not a bad film. It's just that Murnau made so much breathtaking stuff in his other work, that this film seems not so historical interesting. But if you're a fan of Murnau's other work I'm sure you'll like this as well. Make sure you'll watch the Masters of Cinema edition. It has a great documentary about the making of this film. It gave me a lot of new insights about the film and about Murnau.

My girlfriend and i rented this film to have an entertaining night. Some kind of cheesy horror flick, we thought. The name Argento sounded familiar to me, i've not seen any of his films, so i thought we did OK by renting this.

After 5 minutes of watching we already knew that this was a mistake: the acting looked horrible and for some reason unknown to me, the film was dubbed. The dubbing is one of the baddest examples of dubbing i've ever seen. The dubbed sound isn't mixed or properly taken care of.

Later on we found out that the dubbing and acting aren't the only bad things about this film: the plot looks like it's been written by someone on drugs. There are SO many plot holes that all actions lose their function. Besides that, clearly no one bothered to do some research on police departments, poker games, or any other aspect displayed in this film. Therefore this film is an insult to anything the film shows.

Baddest of all is the music. any kind of tension or other mood is completely ruined by the dominant soundtrack of the film. I'm sure that EVERYONE who ever made music on his PC could have made something better.

besides that i expected gore, but this movie could be PG13.

This Argento dude is a filmmaker from who i hope never to see a film again. a I'm sure that if you make a film yourself, it'll be better.

The Tin Drum is about a boy, Oskar, who refuses to grow. All around him, peoples lives are being destroyed by the 2nd WW. Oskar and his tin drum make hideous noise when Oskar sees cruelly around him. Unfortunately, The cruelty that Oskar sees, are not the same as i see. That makes Oskar quite an annoying little boy.

Oskar tends to represent the socialism in Germany, he drums for political reasons. but meanwhile he also drums for his own egocentric sake: his mother cheating on his father, anyone who doesn't like drumming. That hasn't got anything to do with the WW situation. This leads to the strange point where i don't know whether i am supposed to like Oskar or not. Is this film intended to make my own opinion about The WW2? Or is this film intended to dislike Oskar? To bad that great images are ruined by the fact i can't FEEL anything when seeing Oskar. He just makes me wonder (what the heck does he want!?) Nothing more then that.